The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 52

By this time her guards were seeking her everywhere, and they were amazed to find her up in the turret, for they said she could only have got there by magic.

Who acts: guards, Princess · What happens: seek, find up, say, get · To what, where: Princess, turret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seeking	obl
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 guards	nmod:poss
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seeking	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seeking	aux
7	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 everywhere	nmod:poss
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 seeking	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 amazed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 amazed	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 amazed	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 amazed	aux:pass
14	amazed	amazed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seeking	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 amazed	xcomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 find	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 turret	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 turret	det
21	turret	turret	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 turret	acl:relcl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 got	aux
28	only	only	ADV	_	30 got	advmod
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 got	aux
30	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 said	ccomp
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 got	advmod
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 magic	case
33	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 got	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seeking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	past · progressive	Princess's guards			time	everywhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find up	to-infinitive	Princess's guards not said here	Princess	the turret			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	guards = guard	the turret not said here				tree rules
4	get	could · perfect	Princess		there		by magic	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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